... cry, it can bring a fierce warrior to his knees, and it can make the meanest man sweet again. Love is present throughout the great novel "Les Miserables" and is most present in the character Cosette. Cosette brings the once hardened criminal Jean Valjean into a loving being and she also shows undying love ... for Marius. Jean Valjean is arrested for stealing a loaf of bread for his sister's starving children. He is thrown in jail and not released for nineteen years. This act shows his love for the ... to call Valjean her "father" which caused him to show greater love towards Cosette than...

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... friends, without love. Gatsby died without achieving his goal in life, to have his true love, Daisy all to himself. Should somebody really die like this? The endings in the novel, "The Great Gatsby", can be changed dramatically. In the novel, "The Great Gatsby", I think Gatsby should have killed Tom, thinking that he would have Daisy all to himself. After Tom was killed, Daisy would disappear for ... book that would make Gatsby happy would be that, Tom and Jordan are flirting and dancing and having fun all night at one of Gatsby's parties. Nick is watching them the whole night and becom...

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... those who are filled with these qualities could never be renewed into a better person, therefore, should be turned away. However, in Victor Hugo's novel, Les Miserables, Hugo contradicts this belief through the life of one man, Jean Valjean. Valjean demonstrated the belief of Hugo that an immoral and corrupt person can be changed into a life of fulfillment and righteousness through love and compassion and ... show goodness upon him since he was tainted by his past. The bishop's forgiveness allowed Valjean to see the new life that he could hold on to. Furthermore, Cosette "was the second...

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... love, a selfless, sacrificial, unconditional love, that appears most frequently. During the feast of the Passover, Jesus' own awareness is a very important part of the context. He knew "the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he came from God ... (John 13:3). This awareness of the Father putting everything "into his hands" is key to the context of the footwashing because this knowledge presents the sharing in the divine essence of God between Himself and the disciples. Jesus continues, " ... to the rest of his followers, despite Judas' future of betrayal. The New Testam...

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... -hatted high-bouncing lover" who seems to foreshadow Gatsby's relationship with the love of his life, Daisy throughout the novel. He seems to think that by metaphorically wearing his gold hat (new found wealth) that is will move her and she will be convinced that he is the only man she wants. Gatsby the real person, James Gatz, isn't as extravagant as his counterpart Jay ... 's love and affection. Before Daisy, Gatsby was a simple guy, and now even though his house is extravagant Gatsby is the same, he's still simple. So it is no surprise that "His bedroom was the simplest room of all" ( ...

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... two eleven year olds, which becomes deeply bonded through their own little magical world. Finally, the book displays the clear image that extreme differences in social classes can never come between true affection for someone. Thus, true friendship is faithfully inseparable and lasts forever. From the peak beginning of the novel, Jess Aarons is found trying to make friends by competition of racing. He's trying ... to show off his running talent, but to his surprise a girl beats him at his own game: "The icy mud sent little thrills of pain up their legs, so they ran ... splashing in the...

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... a popular story ever since James Cooper wrote the novel in the early 1800s. This is at least the third time that it has been adapted into a movie. The story was turned into a full blown adventurous romance for the nineties crowd. The few who have read the novel might not agree with director Michael Mann's adaptation, as he took just the best moments from the story to create a flawed, but appealing piece ... of entertainment. Daniel Day-Lewis plays Coopers mythic hero, Nathaniel "Hawkeye" Bumppo, an orphan who was raised and brought up under Mohican Indians. As he grew older, he found hi...

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... 's later novels reach. There is a bleakness, a sorrow to the novel, a pessimistic cloud that hangs over all the characters and America as well. The title suggests the protagonists' movement from the pampered life of the beautiful to the suffering of the damned. The damnation is mainly caused by alcohol. Toward the end of the book, the broken, debt-ridden hero, Anthony Patch, "awoke in the morning so nervous that Gloria could feel him trembling ... one of these parties, he is horrified at his drinking and deterioration and cuts him out of his will. Money plays a dominant role in this novel...

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... : The novel that I read is Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts. The main character of this book is a seventeen-year-old, seven-month pregnant girl named Novalee. The story begins with her and her boyfriend Willy Jack driving out to California for his big music career break. Willy Jack portrays a typical "abusive boyfriend" role in the story ... Novalee meets many people during her stay such as Benny Good luck, Moses White cotton, and her savior Forney Hull. Forney Hull aided with the birth of her child, and is the future love of her life. When her baby girl is born, she names her Americus ...

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... him. Brett constantly reminds him of his handicap and thus Jake is challenged as a man in the deepest, most personal sense possible. After the departure of their first meeting, Jake feels miserable: "This was Brett, that I had felt like crying about. Then I thought of her walking up the street and of course in a little while I felt like hell again" (34, Ch. 4). Lady Brett Ashley ... serves as a challenge to a weakness Jake must confront. Since his war experience, Jake has attempted to reshape the man he is and the first step in doing ... , you are a lovely piece. Don't you think she's b...

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... seizures come on her at any time and leave unexpectedly. The existence of her medical condition has given her an additional problem; she is disconnected from the world. She is a 29-year-old single woman that has had no connection with the outside world aside from a few visits to the pond and interaction with people that come into the store. Lahiri writes in her novel, "She was ... birth to her son she no longer has seizures. This leads to the conclusion that what was troubling her all of the time was that she needed balance in her life. The birth of her son was a high point in life to b...

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... that you can not control but the way that you react to them is how you make your life the way it is. In this novel Fowles shows this perspective on life by showing all the ways that Charles" life could turn out. In a way, he gives the reader a choice of how they want to see the story end, but in a contemporary ... However, when Fowles writes that ending, you know that Charles can not do that. It is as if that choice is thrown out the window. It would make both of their lives miserable because they were not in love. Even if Ernestina thought she was, she really was not and would be unhappy...

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... controversial poems, including her well-known work, "Daddy." In the poem, Plath makes use of heavy, even harsh, words, conveying to her readers her literal hatred towards her father who had made her life miserable. However, during the second reading of the poem, I find that the feeling of love can be easily discovered in between the lines. Therefore, we can say that Sylvia Plath's feelings ... towards her father are rather confusing. Thus, in the discussion below I will highlight three points on her feeling towards her father which are the distance between them, the torn feelings she had...

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... the world. "The Sun Also Rises,"" by Ernest Hemingway, does not pose any questions at the beginning of the novel. It starts as a story about the Lost Generation and their lives, but no questions. One of the characters, Pedro Romero, is introduced later in the story, and is not part of the Lost Generation. He helps pose the ... questions. Hemingway makes him do this by being the foil to the story, "a ... so in love with her that he considers marrying her. "Nothing to tell. He only left yesterday. I made him go Why?..Idont know. It isn't the sort of thing one does. I don't think I hurt ...

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In Kate Chopin's novel, The Awakening, Edna Pontellier, the main character, has three important men in her life. All of whom she looks at differently and has different emotions for. Throughout her life Edna feels the need for attention from all men. This explains why she marries Leonce Pontellier, her deep feelings for Robert Leburn, and her sexual ... affairs with Alcee Arobin. Because her husband spends most of his time away from home on business trips, Edna is left with a great deal ... She longs to be with Robert but knows that it would be frowned upon by others who know them. Edna has a ...

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... - As people, we do not realize what kinds of sorrows we bring upon ourselves. All the want, the greed, the needs, add together to make our lives miserable. There is a shortage of non-materialistic people in the world today because we have grown up with the idea that the more we possess the higher up in society we rank. Booker T. Washington said, "I have learned that success is to ... Daisy in hopes of winning her back. This is all that Gatsby can think about; nothing else matters to him except Daisy. When Gatsby allows Daisy to take his car on the wild ride that killed Myrtle, he was pr...

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... horror and disgust filled my heart." These are the exact feelings of creator Victor Frankenstein. From the moment that he was brought to life, the creature was immediately judged by the ugliness of his appearance. His own "God" was disgraced by his appearance and was frightened at the mere sight of this monster. The Creature was then left on his own to experience life. It was like ... throwing a new born baby into the open world. Without knowing his emotions and feelings, he served only as a wretch He had no knowledge of anything, but very quickly learned ... one person could see past ...

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... produced by regretful actions. John Proctor's past actions with Abigail Williams causes jealousy. John had an affair with his maid Abbie. It was due to the coldness he was recieving from his wife, Elizabeth. She soon became aware of their behavior and fired Abbie with great hate. Proctor breaks it off with ... that John wanted Elizabeth more than her and soon her hatred grew and grew. But Elizabeth was still angry with John and had the same feelings for Abbie. Soon after all the accuzations began, Abbie had Elizabeth accused of witchcraft. This was an action taken out of a hate and jealou...

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... thing to love, her young son Paul. Her feelings toward her children, especially Paul, are exemplified when her children are around. She feels the centre of her heart go hard. Everyone thought of her as a great mother who loved her children, but only she knew that her heart was a hard little place that could ... not feel love for anyone, not even her children who desperately need it. Success for the mother is acquiring more wealth to hide her inadequacies. Their family was poor, although they didn't appear to be. The mother spent the money that they had and more at times. It is human nat...

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... she meets a young hunter, who is also an ornithologist, whom she soon begins to greatly admire, but is troubled by the fact that he shoots the very birds that she loves. From her experiences with the hunter, Sylvia learns a few things about growing up and making mature decisions. Because Sylvia has a close relationship with nature ... -as for Sylvia herself, it seemed as if she had never been alive at all before she came to live at the farm- (326). Sylvia feels as though she belongs in the woods. She loves and respects nature as she wanders about, exploring her beautiful world. Since Sy...

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... of an Hour," written by Kate Chopin, irony of a situation is emphasized too show meaning to the story. After Louise finds out the news of the death of her husband, Brently Mallard, Louise's first reaction was to depart in a "storm of grief" with "wild abandonment" (Chopin 3). However ... began to sit in her chair alone in her room and started to "reach in to her soul" (Chopin 4). Because of the death of her husband, Louise starts to realize the "new spring life"(Chopin 5) and all her surroundings she has never examined before. With her new state of mind Louise becomes jovial ... because...

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... that women are complex individuals who need to be treated as equals. He did not know that a marriage is a two way street. His lack of experience led to a miserable marriage. Pechorin was the master of manipulation. His character in Lermontov's "Princess Mary- was able to seduce any woman at will. He liked to use them as pawns in his psychological game. Physical ... not even have to say it but it is quite apparent that the main character loses his sanity. "Thus perished poor Piskaryov, victim of an insane passion..."" (Gogol 24) Piskaryov put women on a pedestal much to high for reality....

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... despair. Through his love he has betrayed her and led her even more deeply into sin. And so her love turns to hatred of the betrayer. Love has little chance of surviving against the intensity of her concern for her own purity and clarity of conscience. For her there can be none of ... doing, that she was led into it, that it was not really her fault. If Bertrande wants to cleanse herself of sin, she must cease to accept the role of wife. At first she tries to deal with this by begging her "husband" to leave her, but when he refuses, saying that it would confirm ... is her madness, she be...

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... this is gold use it all) The narrator was drawn to the book because the novel's protagonist, Jean-Christophe, was a musician just like the narrator, who played the violin. The protagonist, a courageous, pure, and fiercely individualistic person, gave the narrator a revelation: it allowed him to think and act as an individual. The hero of Rolland's book allowed a reformation in the narrator's way of thinking, because ... The narrator's new outlook on life is so powerful that it allows him to overcome obstacles that prior to reading the book may have been impossible: such as to traverse a ...

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... it. Fitzgerald characters are so petty, and small-minded. Gatsby is a man with, as he sees it, an attainable dream. He wishes to re-create the past. This of course is so impossible that he seems nave to even consider it. Gatsby's brain is so freakishly devoured by this dream, that he believes ... his way just to be near Daisy. "Gatsby bought that house so that Daisy would be just across the bay." (p 56, Fitzgerald.) Fitzgerald made this character this way so it is likely that the reader knows the attainable dream. Gatsby does not try to hide behind his dream, after he speaks with his lo...

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